{"id":99893,"date":"2017-04-11T22:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=174471"},"modified":"2017-04-11T22:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:48:25","slug":"coffee-is-not-measured-by-its-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/11\/coffee-is-not-measured-by-its-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee is not measured by its price"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An interesting piece on a $1 coffee joint, Has Coffee Gotten Too Fancy?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Mr. Konecny\u2019s ambitions for Yes Plz go beyond selling a high-quality cup of coffee at that magic price point, though he knows that it sends a powerful message. What he wants to do is shift the very nature of coffee culture. He has no patience for what he calls the \u201cculinary burlesque\u201d of pour-over bars, with their solemn baristas and potted succulents. \u201cIt\u2019s dress-up,\u201d he said.
\nThose settings and presentations, he said, send the wrong message: that good coffee<\/strong> must also be expensive and fetishized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"I drink a lot of coffee. At work I’m known to drink 40 or 60 ounces in a day. I also like specialty coffees, dating back to when I lived in Portland and patronized the Stumptown<\/a> on Belmont.<\/p>\n

As someone who drinks black coffee I like the idea of a no frills establishment. But I also feel the piece’s opposition between cheap good coffee and expensive\u00a0faux<\/em>-good coffee is a bit much. In How Pleasure Works<\/a> Paul Bloom elaborates on something that we know intuitively: it is not always the sensory aspect of how something makes you feel, but also the intellectual aspect of what something is in a more contextual and broad sense.<\/b> I would pay a lot for legitimate Falernian wine<\/a> without even knowing what it tastes like. To drink like Cicero would be enough.<\/p>\n

Yes, sometimes you want the $1 coffee. But sometimes you want the burlesque experience.<\/p>\n

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An interesting piece on a $1 coffee joint, Has Coffee Gotten Too Fancy?: Mr. Konecny’s ambitions for Yes Plz go beyond selling a high-quality cup of coffee at that magic price point, though he knows that it sends a powerful message. What he wants to do is shift the very nature of coffee culture. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99894,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99893\/revisions\/99894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}